Thank you. Yes. I am not familiar with the intricacies of ectopic pregnancies, but am hesitant to accept the word “absolute” as applicable, if only because we may be able to make a way. Whatever we do, it is best to treat all human life with respect, and give the benefit of the doubt when uncertain.
Possibly I was over-positive.
But I still think it obvious that it is better to lose one life than two.
Several decades ago my wife and I took an emergency childbirth midwifery class as part of preparation for a home birth. Part of the class was about the history of midwifery.
Till recently, midwives in remote areas, and probably today in really remote areas, did not have caesarean to fall back on in emergency. Sometimes twins are misaligned in a way where one is trying to be born breech while the other’s head locks and prevents the birth.
In such a case the midwife’s only option was to remove the head of one of the babies so the other baby could be born.
Appalling, but the alternative was to lose both babies and the mother. In such a case, as the article discusses, killing is not the intent, saving life is the intent.